ABOUT ME

I'm incredibly absent minded and a lot of the time I'm interested in ideas way more than people. I am so bad at remembering names and faces that I once introduced myself to my cousin at a bar. Despite this inability to not offend people by remembering basic information, I can remember the names of characters in books I read 10 years ago and if you ask me about a cartoon I watched as a child I typically can still recount the entire plot and details such as which president's head younger Pete (from The Adventures of Pete & Pete) got stuck up his nose (it was Eisenhower). On that note, if I ever have children, the only programing they will be allowed to watch as children will be Peewee's Playhouse and The Adventures of Pete & Pete.

PHILOSOPHY

Think about what you're doing and try not to be a dick.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I am new to the website, but not to couches. I was not born with a couch to sleep on, though. It was lots of travel and thrift that led me to become well acquainted with couches. I spent a trip through the former Yugoslavia sleeping in ditches, on beaches, and finally on a couch offered to me by a guy named Duch who I met in Montenegro at some ruins. It was a gray couch with a foldout bed, but I preferred not to fold it out. Since this incident there have been many more couches and eventually a couch of my own.

Interests

I love brewing/fermentation, travel, science, playing sports (watching sometimes), books, music, but most of all I like building and fixing things. I used to restore vintage bicycles, I've flipped a house, and now I'm starting to get interested in working on motorcycles.

• books
• motorcycles
• thrifting
• traveling
• music
• sports
• science
• beaches

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: The Rolling Stones, The Books, The Cramps, FIDLAR, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Elvis, The Flamingoes, The Platters, The Centurions...

Books: Catcher in the Rye, Catch-22, Breakfast of Champions, Slapstick, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, All Quiet on the Western Front.

Movies: The Big Lebowski, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tenenbaums, Edward Scissorhands, Forest Gump, Dead Alive, Tokyo Gore Police, Old Boy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sitting on the edge of a cliff in Montenegro, I watched a storm coming in across the sea. It was one of the most beautiful things I've seen in my life.

Countries I’ve Visited

Belgium, China, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Montenegro, Netherlands, Serbia, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany